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Writing to CDRW with New DVD RW Drive
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:29 pm
by Wallygator
Hello, I have a CDRW I have been using for several years. I recently installed a DVD burner. I cannot write to my old CDRW disk with it. I have installed Easy CD/DVD Creator 6. Any suggestions? Do I have to burn it to a DVDRW ??? Thanks in advance for the help. Wallygator.
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:37 pm
by cyberskye
May need to format the rw first. Different apps - and even diff versions of the same app - may use different implementations of the UDF.
You should be able to use cdr/rw in the drive, but thaty depends on the specific dvd drive.
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:46 pm
by kalbster
First try to get rid of Roxio. I've had a lot of problems that ended when I got rid of the EZ CD 6. I didn't have the problems with 5.
You could try the downloads from thier site but they didn't help me.
I'm not sure that is the problem but it's a start.
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:40 pm
by Norm
Originally posted by kalbster
First try to get rid of Roxio. I've had a lot of problems that ended when I got rid of the EZ CD 6. I didn't have the problems with 5.
You could try the downloads from thier site but they didn't help me.
I'm not sure that is the problem but it's a start.
I got fed up with Roxio as well. Or was it Adaptec at the time, can't remember.
Get Nero, copy the files off the CDRW to HD, then quick erase the CDRW, and copy files from HD back to CDRW. With Nero, I've never had to "format" a CDRW. Just use quick erase.
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:09 pm
by kalbster
Nero rocks!
I was going to change over to Nero, the last time I upgraded, but then I saw an article in Max PC that showed that Roxio 6 was actually faster (a 1st) so I just upgraded. What a big mistake.
I've never seen one so slow as Roxio drag-to-disk (45min to format a stinking disk.